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Thing 48. Twitter: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
You’ve heard about Twitter, you’ve seen Twitter, and you’re either on the Twitter bandwagon or you’ve dismissed it. There seems to be no middle ground when it comes to those who love and hate Twitter,...
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Thing 49. TweetDeck: Manage Twitter, Facebook, MySpace & LinkedIn Together
So you've signed up for Twitter and now the tweets are coming in fast and furious, people are mentioning you, you're getting direct messages, people are retweeting you, and maybe you even decided to...
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Thing 50. Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
Twitter, RSS Feeds, email, web conferencing, social networking… Oh my! Developing and maintaining professional connections through a personal learning network in our fast-paced, virtual world may often...
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Thing 51. It's An Avalanche! Managing Your PLN via a Customizable Homepage
As all of this information comes at us through our PLNs, how can we organize it so that we can avoid becoming buried? And, how can we actually boost our productivity? As mentioned in Thing 28, many...
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Thing 52. Putting It All Together: Building & Sharing Your iGoogle Page
iGoogle or other personal start pages are great for managing your PLN, but they can further enhance your productivity by aggregating many other parts of your life, too. You can organize gadgets and...
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Thing 53. Location-Based Social Networks
One of the newest and hottest 2.0 technologies is location-based social networks. These technologies use GPS to broadcast your location and/or other content from your mobile device, known as "checking...
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Thing 54. Hyperlocal Sites
In this thing, we’re exploring the not-so-new idea known now as hyperlocal websites. “Not-so-new” in the sense that what many of these sites are doing is providing that local (town, city, neighborhood,...
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Things 55. Google OR Bing - Which Thing?
Are you “gaga" over Google or "bonkers" for Bing? Most of us are familiar with the many facets of Google, but it's time to take a closer look at Bing. Since its launch in 2009, Bing has offered an...
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Thing 56. LinkedIn
Are you LinkedIn? Maybe you have checked it out? Well, if you haven't looked at LinkedIn (LI) lately, you may want to revisit the largest business networking site on the web. Initially known for its...
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Thing 57. ChaCha: Mobile Answer Service
Almost all of us have cell phones and we all have questions -- important questions, trivial questions, situational questions, directional questions, bar bets, and questions that result from idle...
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Thing 58. Chat Reference: AskMN
Sometimes a Google search or a ChaCha inquiry simply does not provide the in-depth, quality information that you need. Or maybe you just don’t know how to formulate an effective search strategy and...
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A recent post on Resource Shelf offers an update on new features in Bing. Here are a few the article mentions:Updated iPhone appMore entertainment information, including song lyrics and full-length...
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Thing 59: Reading Rewards
"It's summertime and the living is easy." And, oh, soooo easy for children to forget those reading skills they honed during the school year. Now that summer is upon us, we as parents, librarians, and...
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Thing 60: Readability and Instapaper
Reading on the web can sometimes be challenging. Text blocks are broken up, advertisements are flashing relentlessly, type can be tiny. What is a person to do to make reading on a web page more...
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Thing 61. Online Professional Development for Library Staff
As libraries of all types face budget cuts that have an impact on hours, service, and collections, the ability for staff to attend professional development events out of the library may be reduced,...
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Thing 62. The Creative Librarian
Photos & videos are a great way to engage library users and the community in what happens at the library. You can document events like the summer reading program finale. Post photos or videos of...
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Thing 63. Droid
I started my career as a systems librarian, so you would think I would be up on all the latest gadgets, but that hasn’t always been the case. Until I became an administrator, I didn’t really have a...
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Thing 64. Face-to-Face Social Networking for Libraries: Let’s Get Back to Basics
The Web 2.0 initiative for libraries is a good and positive thing. I’m no Luddite and I’m glad my library required staff to participate in creating blogs, using Facebook, Shelfari, Twitter, et al. I...
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Thing 65. Web-Based Note Taking
Have you ever been hard at work, online, perhaps writing an article like this one – when wham! the best idea ever hits you! Or, maybe you’re researching a topic and need to take notes as you go along....
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Thing 66. Politcal Engagement in a Technical World: 2010 Midterm Election and...
Midterm elections are on the horizon! What time like the present to think about your own political engagement and how to get others involved in the political process? Times are a changin’ and through...
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Thing 67. Alltop
We know that keeping up with the news is important for all library staff--not only on library-related topics but world, regional, and local news, too. You know all about RSS and aggregators like Google...
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Thing 68. Social Mention
So, you--or your library--are busy tweeting comments and announcements, keeping up your Facebook page, putting cool videos on YouTube, blogging, Digg-ing--all manner of getting the word out on social...
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Thing 69. No Issue with Issuu: Digital Publishing
It's time to publish that annual report and this year you really want to make a "go green" effort. Here's an easy solution! Introduce yourself to Issuu, an online digital publishing platform that...
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Thing 70. Productivity in Your Pocket: Portable Programs
A portable program is a piece of software that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any other computer. It can be your email program, a browser, system recovery tools, or even...
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Things 69 & 70 (below) make up the last issue of Things On a Stick News. Minnesota's seven multicounty, multitype library systems have been introducing new "Things" to library staff since...
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